Thursday, January 17, 2013

RePurposed Christmas Cards

With Christmas over, I was doing some cleaning up and came across a bundle of Christmas cards we received in 2011.

These Christmas cards were so pretty, and I decided I would keep some of that prettiness to use again. So I cut out parts of the cards to use as gift tags for next year.

Here are some close-ups.

Cute kittens and silver snowflakes.

Love the one that looks like a quilt in the photo above.

I got out the fancy-edge scissors for some of them.

Now all they need is a hole punched and ribbon or string tied onto them.

One fortunate thing I found was a card with a nice circle on the front of it. So I was able to use that to draw circles on the cards and cut out round tags. It would be fun to use some other shapes, too, wouldn't it. Like maybe a star or a Santa boot or a stocking. And I just remembered that I have a tag-shaped punch which I could use, too. I'll have to remember these ideas for next year!